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WELCOME TO FREEDOS

FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to
play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or write new DOS programs.
Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.

Download FreeDOS 1.3


PLAY CLASSIC GAMES

You can play your favorite DOS games on FreeDOS. And there are a lot of great
classic games to play: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Commander Keen, Rise of the Triad,
Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem, and many others!

Play games


RUN APPLICATIONS

You can run your favorite DOS programs with FreeDOS. Or use FreeDOS to run a
legacy DOS application. Just install your DOS program under FreeDOS like you
would any DOS application and you'll be good to go.

Run applications


FOR DEVELOPERS

FreeDOS includes lots of programming tools so you can create your own DOS
programs. You can also modify FreeDOS itself, because we include the source code
under an open source license.

Developers


WHAT’S NEW


FREEDOS FORMAT 0.92A

2024-09-09 5:54am

Format is a disk formatting program. It creates FAT file systems and low-level
formats floppy disks. Jeremy has shared FreeDOS Format 0.92a (a test release)
with these new features: - fix failure formatting on first diskette access
(GitHub issue #5) - initial translated message support; currently supports most
of messages in FR and TR (some have been added since last updated) thanks to
cardpuncher (Berki Yenigün). Translations are done using kitten, but in a format
compatible with Tom's kittenc implementation. See NLSFORMAT.EN for all currently
supported messages for translation, about 462 strings. Get the new version at
Format 0.92a on GitHub.

This is a test release based on the new Format 0.92. From the August 8
announcement: Jeremy has published a new version of FreeDOS Format to fix
several reported bugs, and merged a pull request adding 128KB cluster support.
You can download the new version from FreeDOS Format at GitHub.


MTCP NETDRIVE AVAILABLE FOR TESTING

2024-08-17 11:25am

mTCP NetDrive lets you mount floppy disk and hard drive images over the network
to your DOS machine, allowing you to examine a floppy image or add gigabytes of
network attached storage in seconds. It runs on all versions of DOS including
FreeDOS, requires a minimal amount of RAM, and will work across WiFi or the
Internet. The server runs under Windows or Linux and requires no special
permissions or extra packages to run. The newest version has a big new feature:
"Undo" support for hard drives. Other changes include: support for longer drive
image names, better error handling when a UDP packet is lost, and some minor
performance improvements. Also: "For FreeDOS, I debugged and fixed the glitch
where the placeholder RAM disk would not show its directory listing." See the
documentation and download it at mTCP NetDrive.

FYI: This is new code under rapid development, so Mike has not released the
source code yet. He plans to do so when things have stabilized.


FREEDOS XCOPY 1.6

2024-08-12 9:36am

Xcopy is an essential DOS command that copies files and directories. Jeremy has
released a new version of Xcopy that fixes several bugs: "fix bug causing
timestamps to not always be set correctly - fix bug causing stack corruption on
Open Watcom builds - improve free disk space calculation." You can find the new
version 1.6 from Jeremy's Xcopy on GitHub. Thanks Jeremy!


SVARCOM VER 2024.3

2024-08-03 10:18am

SvarCOM is a command shell for DOS, like command.com but meant to be a
minimalist shell replacement. Mateusz Viste recently released SvarCOM ver
2024.3, the new version of SvarCOM, which supports $v, $d and $t tags in the
prompt, and fixed COMMAND/C processing of batch files and FOR loops. You can
download from the SvarCOM website. SvarCOM is distributed under the MIT license.


LIBFP: FLOATING POINT LIBRARY

2024-07-05 1:29pm

Gregory Pietsch has been working on libfp, a floating point library. Gregory
explains: "This library is supposed to be the complement to libmpi in the C
runtime library." Gregory asks all interested developers to test it out; you can
share feedback on the freedos-devel email list. The libfp library is in the
public domain, and you can download version "zero point zero" at
/devel/libs/libfp on the FreeDOS FIles Archive at Ibiblio.


FREEDOS ONLINE EVENTS

2024-06-30 6:48am

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a very special virtual get-together on
Saturday morning to celebrate our 30th anniversary! We like to meet virtually
every month or so, to connect in real time and get to know each other as more
than just an email address. We alternate topics for the get-together, and this
month was social time. We'll see you again on August 4 for a technical
discussion - this is a great opportunity for live debugging or discussing
technical issues.

And thanks for joining the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
Vintage Computer Federation. Jim talked about what DOS and DOS apps were like in
the 1980s and 1990s, and what led up to the announcement of the FreeDOS Project
on June 29, 1994. He also showed how to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine,
using QEMU. You can watch a recording of the Live Stream on YouTube.

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